Work

I declared today as the worst day at work since I entered this organisation.

Nothing wrong with the people but as we approach the showdown with the other Ministries the following day, we were still running around in circles for most of the day. I would personally expect deeper insights from someone but well, it ended up with Darius and me having no time for lunch, being in the bad light before the biggest boss, and didn't even have time for toilet break lol

My exasperation led me to raise more suggestions to get things done in a more effectively manner, or at least, the way I believed the biggest boss had wanted. I asked Darius a couple of times today, "Did I sound rude?"

"Nah, not at all," Darius was nice.

And then, I noticed something. My CEO, at the end of the final internal meeting, realising that Darius and I would continue to work while he would make his way back, said, "Sorry, I know we are overworking you ..."

It reverberated in my head.

You see, working a minion till he/she drops is a norm, and from where I came from, even though we may finish a meeting at 8pm, the bosses would have the rights to demand for an amended version of a paper by the same evening. a

Well, my CEO could have felt that since we two aren't duly compensated with the high flyers' pay scale, we were some miserable creatures but nevertheless, he didn't have to be sympathetic towards us ... and the fact that he did brought some warmth inside my heart